Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.

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For the rest of the history of modern programming languages -- because C was really just the beginning! -- check out the infographic below. You can click it to zoom in.

The computing industry is dominated by men but this wasn’t always so. Coding was once considered a female job. While men were responsible for the building of machines, females programmed them. The ...

Why Aren’t Computer Programming Languages Designed Better? An experiment by computer science researchers shows that Perl, a major commercial programming language, is no more intuitive to use than a ...